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PROGRAM:

NAME

gotmail - A script to fetch mail from a Hotmail mailbox.

SYNOPSIS

gotmail [-u username] [-p password] [--help] [--version] ...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the gotmail script.

Gotmail is a perl script to fetch mail out of a Hotmail account and either place it into
the current directory in unix mbox format or forward it to another email address.

OPTIONS

-?, --help, --usage
Show summary of options.

-u, --username username
Specify your hotmail account username.

-p, --password password
Specify your hotmail account password. (Warning: using this on the command line is
insecure. It is suggested that you use a configuration file--see below)

-d, --domain domain
Specify an acceptable hotmail domain: hotmail.com (default), hotmail.com (default),
msn.com, charter.com, compaq.net, hotmail.co.jp, hotmail.co.uk, hotmail.de,
hotmail.fr, hotmail.it, messengeruser.com, passport.com, webtv.net

--version
Print the version number.

--debug
Print and log debug spew.

-v, --verbose
Be verbose.

--silent
Be as quiet as possible.

-c, --config-file file
Specifies a different configuration file than the default (~/.gotmailrc). See
below.

--proxy host:port
Specify an HTTP proxy to use. Format is host:port - eg: localhost:3128

-f, --forward address
Specify an email address to forward to. If a forwarding address is not given,
messages will be saved to disk.

-s, --smtpserver server
Send email via the specified smtp server, rather than with sendmail. This allows
use of Gotmail under Windows 2000, at least. May work elsewhere.

--exclude-folders folders
Do not get these folders (list of folders in quotes, i.e.: "Inbox, Bulk Mail")

--folders folderlist
The --folders option only downloads messages from folders that are in the list
given. eg. gotmail --folders "bulk mail, inbox" will get the bulk mail and inbox
folders only. The list separator should now be a comma, optionally with whitespace
on either side.

--folder-dir /my/dir
Specify which directory to put email folders in. The folders will be saved as
mbox-compatible files named after the folders on Hotmail.

--only-new
Only previously unread messages will be retrieved.

--mark-read
Mark messages as read once they have been downloaded.

--delete
Delete messages once they have been downloaded. This option is being deprecated as
of version 0.8.2. Use the --move <folder> command to move downloaded mails to the
Trash Can instead.

--move <folder>
Move mails to the named folder after downloading.

--speed-limit
Add a small delay after each message to stop the local MTA from being overloaded.

--retry-limit num_tries
Maximum number of times to retry a download.

--save-to-login
When this option is specified, saves messages to "username-foldername" in the
folder-dir directory. The Inbox folder is saved to just "username".

--use-procmail
This option sends all messages only to procmail(1). Options to forward or save to
mailboxes are ignored.

--procmail-bin /path/to/procmail
Allows user to set location of the procmail binary. Default is "/usr/bin/procmail".

--procmail-option <opt>
Pass options through to procmail

--curl-bin /path/to/curl
Allows user to set location of the curl binary. Default is to search the path.

--use-sa
Use SpamAssassin to detect junk mail.

--delete-spam
Delete junk mail instead of just ignoring it (requires --use-sa option).

--move-spam folder
Move spam to this folder (requires --use-sa option).

--spam-score score
SpamAssassin score to be considered spam. Default is 4.5.

--nodownload
Don't actually download or forward mail. Useful when used with the --delete-spam
option.

--summary
Print the number of messages received one line per folder.

--remove-header
Automatically remove X-Message-Info header to not trigger X_MESSAGE_INFO rule in
SpamAssassin.

EXAMPLES

Download all the mail from the account of "[email protected]" with password "sEcReT"
and forward it to "[email protected]".

gotmail -u billyjoe -p sEcReT -f [email protected]
(This is insecure!)

Download, and delete, new mail only in the Inbox and MyMail folders of uro_levu's Hotmail
account. Save the resulting mail in mbox files named after the folders ("Inbox" and
"MyMail") under the warmmail/ directory.

gotmail -u uro_levu -p my_password --delete --only-new \
--folder-dir $HOME/warmmail --folders "Inbox, MyMail"
(This is insecure!)

Scan the mail in the Inbox and move anything with a SpamAssassin score of 5 or better to a
folder named Spam, but don't actually download anything.

gotmail --folders "Inbox" -u billyjoe -p sEcReT --use-sa \
--nodownload --move-spam Spam --spam-score 5
(This is insecure!)

Configuration

You can put the configuration for gotmail in a file. This has the significant advantage of
not putting your username and password on the command line, where it is possible for
others on your machine to read them. By default, gotmail will look for a file in your home
directory called ".gotmailrc". You can specify a different one with the --config-file
option. Options on the command line will override options in the configuration file.

Configuration files may contain comments (Lines beginning with #). Options in the file
are identical to the long arguments listed above, and are assigned values using an = sign.
Do not add extra whitespace before or after the =.

This very simple configuration file gets all the mail from the account of
[email protected], password "ger0nim34":

# randomuser's gotmailrc file
username=randomuser
password=ger0nim34

This slightly more complex example causes gotmail to quietly download and delete all mail
in the account of [email protected], and forward it to [email protected].

# .gotmailrc

username=linux
password=FreesOftwareForever
forward=[email protected]
silent
delete

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Peter Hawkins <[email protected]>, for the Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Additions were made by paul cannon
<[email protected]> and James Turnbull <[email protected]>.

Additional contributions from John Fruetel, Jon Phillips, Guyang Mao, Didier CLERC, Leigh
Purdie, Sh, Patrick Froede, Herman Mereles, Kamal Kantawala, Andrei Popov, Kamal
Mahyuddin, Hindu, Joel Mejeur, Wesley Hosking, Max Hales, Brian Almeida, Jens Preikschat,
Jonas Smedegaard, Robert Lazzurs, Tim Dijkstra, Hari Sundararaghavan, Silas S. Brown,
Adrian Chung, Lalit Chhabra, Loic TREGOUET, Sean D. True, Timothy Lee, stripes, David
Holland, Sergio Rua, Lee, William X. Walsh,Chris Ham, Angel Luis Jimenez Martinez, James
Ascroft-Leigh, Andrea Briganti,cageek, Brad Donison, Jens E. Madsen Jr., Paul Howarth,
Gertjan Harkink, Jos De Laender, jdanwhite, and Manoajv Sridhar.

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